Why I Switched to Mason Bees for the Fruit Trees

Mason bees are out and working weeks before honeybees show up, which matters when your plum tree blooms early.

This is where the full journal entry would live — soil notes, what worked, what to change next time, and the photos to prove it. Swap this placeholder body for your real write-up whenever you're ready to publish.

To add a new entry, add an object to the JOURNAL_POSTS array in server.js with a unique slug, then write its content directly into this template or wire the journal up to a small database — the same MariaDB pattern used on the recipe site would work well here.